RELIGION CHANGED FOR LOVE-0R CROWNS.

North Otago Times, 26 July 1906, Page 2 (Supplement)

RELIGION CHANGED FOR LOVE-0R CROWNS.

Although Princess Ena of Batten- 1 , borg will bo the first of liis Majesty's ] many nieces to embraco Roman Catholicism—a chango of religion-; rendered absolutely, necessary for a '• Queen of Spain, who hitherto has al- ! woys" been a '/bom" Catholic—it will bo recollected (says the "Westminis- ! tor Gazette") that no fewer than' threo "of his nieces have already become members of the Orthodox Greek |, Church upon, their respective mar- ; ringes, '' They are the -Czarina of Russia,"; formerly"., Princess Alice,!.youngest' daughter of tho date 'Grand Duchess 6i Hesse-Darmstadt (Princess Alice of England); the Crown. Princess of Greece, formerly Pnncess. Sophia, third daughter of the late Empress Frederick (Princess Royal .of England); and the - Crown Princess of ' 'Jlumania',' formerly Princess Marie,, eldest : daughter ol tluv Into. Duko. of. - Saxc-Coburg-Gotha and Edinburgh. . His Majesty s 'great-niece, Princess; Alice . of'JSattoiiburg, - was also ro-1 ceived . into the Greek Church upon I her marriage two years* ago to j Pi nice Anjdiew of Giocco, a youngci son of tJie King of Greecci '